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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JANUARY 3,
the meeting which took place in Canton the JR. AXIMOTO, a seṛman oft board the steam? other day it is quite clear that the boycott ship di Alaw, was arraigned before Mr. F. will be revived and pursued with renewed-Aliazeland, this morning, at the Police Court, vigour. It was hot-absolutely-clear-from chai last evening. Thp, it was rated, what on a charge of disorderly behaviour at Wan the telegrins which we published some days refused admittance to a certain house in that ago whether the meeting which was then locality, started
THE MURDER AT KOWLOON.
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The following letter, which appears in the
interest to local readers. In reproducing it we He was fined, disclaim all entorsement of what must certain. ly be considered a far-fetched theory. The ex- act words made use of by the murderer on that fateful occasion will probably never be known; no two local reports coincide with regard to that particular':
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In Original Jurisdiction this morning before his Honour the Chief Justice the case of the petition of certain shareholders of the when Mr. M. W. Slade instructed by Mr. C. D. Wilkinson, of Messrs. Wilkinson, and Grist, appeared for the petitioners, and Sir Henry Berkeley, instructed by Mr. P. W. Goldring, ef Messrs. Goldring and Farlow, appeared for the opposing shareholders.
Mr. Slade applied to have the case adjourn. ed to Chambers, which Sir Henry opposed, as he did not consider it a case for Chambers.
Mr. Slade then applied that the case be ad- journed sine die.
case at pm, to-morrow.
His Honour then said he would take the
CANTON DAY BY DAY.
#ARMED ROBBERY.
[from Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, and January,
A robbery was committed by four armed men who epleted a fantan shop, at No. 19,. Chung Sou Sun Street, in the Western suburb, at six o'clock, on the evening of the 30th ult The rubbers decamped with $630 in cash. The case has been reported to the Namboi Magis trate, who went personally the next day to examine the scene of the outrage,
NEW STATIONERY, DEPARTMENT. H.E. the Viceroy has sanctioned the opening of a statuunery and printing department in con section with the Government paper factory. The offices are situated at Po Shus Street. All stationery used in Government offices is issund from this office. Several printed forms"are obtainable for the purpose of petitions, lottery tickets and pawo tickets, which are the doly forms recognised by the Government.
TELEGRAPH APPOINTMENT.
H. E. the Viceroy has appointed Expectant Magistrate Fung Pang Chiu as. Proctor of the Canton branch of the Imperial Telegraph Ad- ministration and the Canton Telephone Bureau,
funds remaining in the bands of the boycott committee or the resuscitation of the plan of 'campaign, but our correspondent" bas "DURING the past year 30,000.deserted wives amply confirmed the impression that there have had to be relieved by the Berlin poor law was to be a revival of the battle for the authorities, at a cost of nearly £35,000. A pro admission of Chinese to America under less
portion of these destitute women had fed from restricted conditions than those which pre-discovery that in the vast majority of cases too their husbands, and inquiries have led to the
Sir-With reference to the murder if Mr. Craik at Hongkong, the words used by the vail at present. To a certain extent this frequent indulgence in alcohol had produced murderer, according to your paper in an ex- is a new movement which has been born'in matrimonial squabbles, which resulted in this tract from the South China Morning Past. Canton, Originally the anger of the Chinese great body of women being dependent, at least were If you made a noise I will kill you rou," Sir Henry again opposed, as he saw no rea was directed against the proposal to refuse for a time, on public charity..."
If those were the very words he used, it willson for such an adjournment; all parties were admission-except under terms, which IT is reported that repairs to the big liner American, for the use of the word made for very long case the sooner it was commenced exclude the idea of his being a Britisheror ready to go on, and as it was likely to be a practically amounted to exclusion-to all Afanchurin, which was ashore on Waimanolamike is not the kind of mistake an English the better. and sundry in order to divert what is known reef, near Honolulu, for several weeks, will' man, Scotsman, Jrishman or Antericon would as the "yellow peril." Then America, recost in the neighbourhood of $56,oco (gold), be guilty of, whatever other grammatical errors cognising the seriousness of the situation The ship will be laid up in San Francisco until he might make The chances of his being a from the standpoint of the commercial Union Iron Works there is a clause that remote, il, as it is alleged, the murderer must -next June, and in the contract signed with, the white man of any other nationality me very interests of the Pacific slope, announced provides for a bonus of froco a day to the have known the dock premises thoroughly, for that no hindrances would be placed in the Union Iron Works for the completion of repairs it is not likely that foreigners, other than Bri "way of hong-fide Chinese travellers, mer before the stipulated time, and a forfeit of ishers, are employed on the dock premises.
chants, or students, the Exclusion Act being $100 a day for detention of the vesseļ at the The murderer is also not likely to be an un- simply intended to form a barrier against
iron works after that time.
educated Chinaman, with even a knowledge of coalies. The white labourers, of various
pidgin English, for his tunguage is not what we would expect of a man using pidgin English the steamer came alongside the wharf. The Land 5th instant, H. E. the Viceroy has given. nationalities, in San Francisco were, it seems, foaming with fury at the bare idea that a
"You make noise, I killum you," with per- have been well thought out, but the rogue die Magistrates to stop at once the proposed meet. The pidgin version of the threat would be theft was a very clever one indeed, and
instructions to the Namboi and Pun Yu Chinaman should take their place. How
haps alla same" added for "too if we
not have time to leave the ship before his gameings: H. E. stated that such action as boy. ever, the official statement calified the storm
translate literally what such a culprit would
way known and the alarm given. The ship coit meetings will tend to cause a brooch of in China, or, at least, to all outward appear
make noise, I kill you. The particle "a" and boy, was arrested in the fore part of the ship: nations concerned and that ex-Viceroy Shum's. he said-in-Chinese, we would you was searched and the thief, together with the harmonious relationship between the two ance seemed to do so. But the Cantonese leaders of the boycott have apparently been
the auxiliary "will" would be omitted from the. The shroff, who has to thank his lucky star
order forbidding the American boycott should simmering all the time and now they have
the word "if" would be understood, and there Au Tak Nam, of No. 133, Bonham Strand sentence in Chinese or pidgin English. Even and the police for the return of his money, is be taken as a precedent,
East. He, it was said, weul to Canton a few
H.E. Viceroy Chow will proceed to Vin days ago 10 collect-some-money-together--Thing to inspect the new barracks on the 4th he collected $1,046.94, mostly in silver When inst. He will also make a tour of inspection of he got ready yesterday afternoon to return to
the Boca Tigris and inspect the forts on the Hongkong he placed the money in a bundle following day.
MR. William Rossell, Government Marine Surveyor, residing in Observatory Villas, Kow- toan, was the complainant in a larceny case which was heard before Mi. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police Coust, this morning. He charged a a large iron plate, the value of which he gave marine hawker named Leung Kui with stealing at So, on the 2nd instant. The iron plate was missed yesterday, morning, so it was said. Later in the day' defendant was attempting to
sell the plate to another hawker when he was seen and rested. A sentence of six weeks'
SADICK Fukeira, who styles, himself a ticket collector-when there are any theatrical com
paules in the Colony-made his second appear». ance, the first this year, at the Palice Court this morning, with behaving in a disorderly manner whist drunk on the verandal of the City Hall last evening. The Indian denied that he did any such thing. He said he and several other fiends were enjoying themselves with the caretaker-Aley. Mr... Carrothers, of the Royal Engineers Department, declared that when he was called he saw defendant, minus his coat, running up and down the corridor of the building, screaming. He was' fined $7.
fare left not in pidgin.
The murderer was probably at one time a
tended a night class in Hongkong and had left without getting into the higher standards, where bis English for a short easy sentence that used by the murderer would have been perfect. If, however, the murderer, as suming that he was a Chinamão, bad not been educated at an English school, hus pronuncia. tion would have been so bad or so marked that notwithstanding the excitement at the time,
OBS UTOTING BUNDLES.
CLEVER, TRICKSTER CAUGHT. Just by sheer luck a shroff returning from Canton, sarly this morning on board the Canion add which he had stolen from him just before steamer Pawin narrowly missed losing $1,000
mus:
with his clothing. When he got on board the own he placed the precious bundle on a shelf above him and, presumably, went to sleep On awaking, the ship was making for her berth. He got down what he thought was his bundle and on opening it to replace certain anicles
which had been in use during, the voyage,
in
BOYCOTT MEETINGS Forbidden. Ou receipt of letter from a certain frm in Shameen asking him to stop the boycott meetings which were to take place on the and
THE VICEROY ACTIVE,
THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN, The 7th inst. being H.E. Chow's sevenlieth bithday, the Canton-Hankow Railway Com- pany has prepared'some gifts and will present them to him for the occasion.
THE KOWLOON MURDERER
HANGED,
come to the boil. It has been decided al émḥnýjastic meeting of a thousand peo- ple to have a grand revival of the boycott I hard labour and four hours' stocks way passed. tad educated su an English school, or had al- against American goods. No spirit of levity can be read into the resolutions adopted. They fue sound, considered, determined and practical; the gauntlet, which had been thrown down for a moment is taken up again with increased, resolution. They appeal to the local pride of the people; they appeal to the upholders of local industry; they appeal to those who stand to lose
Mrs. Craik could ont have mistaken him for found that although the bundle was made to should all the american goods at present in
resemble his it was not. His bundle and the anybody else than a Chinaman. If the mur Canton be ruthlessly destroyed sans con-
de er had learnt his English from a book dollars had disappeared. The substitute-con-
CORONER'S INQUIRY. sideration for the native owners; and they
giving English words in Chinese characters hetained a quantity of rags and a large number would have pronounced the word noise as a nf copper cash. It seems that somebody also appeal to the timid and irresolute by
The young Chinaman, who was responsibla suggesting that the Viceroy should be asked
word of two syllables for you cannot get any knew of the shroff's mission to Canton and
for the death of his former employer, the master through Peking to open negotiations with the CHENG Tok residing at No. 24, Square Street, sound of the English monosyllable noise and They saw
one character in Chinese to represent the fallowed him about while that city gf a pork butcher's shop, in Elgin Road, Kow
ham collect the A., S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED; American Government on the subject. It is
money toon, iccently, under circumstances previously was charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, this two characters would be used to represent, as
They followed him aboard the Powan, and, reported in these columas, aud who was Fen- AGENTS.
a very cleverly worded series of resolutions mring, at the Police Court, with stealing near as possible, the two syllables "noi" and moreover, particular notice was paid to the tenced to death at the last Criminal Sessions, that the leaders of the boycott have framed,
from a jeweller's shop: at No. 178, Queen's see," the result being the combination bundle he was carrying. Without much delay received the full punishment of the law at three Road Central, yesterday, a gofd eur-pick, "haisy" for "noise."
theparty or parties concerned hastily got minutes after five o'clock yesterday morning and there is no reason to assume that they valued at $15.50. Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs. If you made a noise I will kill you too, together the material and made a bundle when he was taken to the gallows and bang. will ultimately fail to attain their end. True, Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for the defend-though ungrammatical, is too good English which closely resembled that of the shroff, the cd,, the gaol officials being present, Every the new Viceroy has proclaimed the mectant, who pleaded not guilty to the accusation. For the great majority of Chinese coolics or
copper cash being placed in the bogus bundle thing was kept su quiet that not even the ings but nobody can stop a secret pro Inspector Smith, who had charge of the case,
servants. If the murderer was an old servant,
so that the shroff would not mistake the police-court loiterers, who hear nearly every. paganda, least of all one which hinges on said that defendant went to the jeweller's es- he should be readily identified, as the one weight. This completed, the work of sub-shing of any importance, knew that the law was'
who spoke fairly good English and nut pidginstituting the two bundles during the shroff's
allowed to take its course in this case. patriotism and profit. It may be asked why,tablishment and asked to be shown some
jewellery. He examined the articles one by English. The same would apply if he had slumber was a matter of a few minutes. Im
In the afternoon Mr. F. A. Hareland, presid if there is all this feeling among the people ne, and in the presence of four fuis uitempted
been a dock-hand.
'mediately the shroff discovered the trick he lost of Canton, regarding the boycott, should it
to get away with the ear-pick, He, was 1 remember, a few years ago, being sur no time in calling for the police, who searched only come to light now? The real reason, we
arrested on the spot. At the request of defend-prised when an Inspector of Police here who all suspected persons. They then ransacked. suggest, is that those interested in keeping ant's solicitor a remand was granted. Bail spoke Chinese told me that we had got the every nook and comer of the ship and soon they the movement live were content to rest'on
right Chinaman concerned in the murder of were rewarded. In a corner in the fore part of the in addition to other suspicious circumstances, ping open a bundle. He was promptly seized. a Korean in. Muar a year previously, because, ship they fonad a coolie busily engaged in rip. he could tell the man was trying to screen his and the shroff gave a sigh of relief as he re- identity by speaking a dialect other than hi,cognised his bundle and was told that the cop- own. It was afterwards proved that the priten s were infact. soner had cashed a draft belonging to the murdered Korean at one of the local banks charge of murder was not bought against him here, for which he got three, years, though the
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their cars so long as Viceroy Shum was in MICHAEL Burke, a private in the Royal Gar. power. It was an undisguised fact that risan Artillery, caine before Mr. F. A. Haze Shum was a rank anti-foreigner, As we loud, as the Police Court, this morning, to have repeatedly said, his motto was "China
answer three charges. On the first it was als for the Chinese and he acted up to it.ged he damaged property to the extent of our dollar at No. 31, Ship Street, last evening, an From his point of view he was perfectly justi- the second he assauked P. C. Hedge, and on fed in excluding foreigners from the repro- the third he damaged the policeman's uniform, ductive works of South, Ching, but no nation Burke stated that he accidentally smashed a can afford to depend'soley on native talent jur; a policeman was called, but he did not [86-certainly not China in its present state of
assault him. The complainant stated that enlightenment. However, knowing Shum'starke picked up the jar and flung it at her attitude and having daily experience of his ed burke sat upon him and assaulted him, dis The policeman averred that when he was call
On the 31st December, 1906, at 3, Pedder's Hill, Hongkong, the wife of J. C, H. L.SMITH, chief engineer, s.5. Nunning, of a daughter. Penang papers please copy.
The Honghaey Griegraph predisposition, the boycott leaders allowed troyed the peak of his cap. which he threw in
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907.
:
'THE NEW BOXCOTT. Berious attention must be directed to the resurrection of the boycott movement in Canton. When the idea of boycotting American goods, in retaliation for the Exclusión Act. enforced by the Government
be
seeri.
THE SLOPE THAT FAILED.
JOHN DOWNIE'S BEHAVIOUR.
John Downin; a well-known character in police-court circles, whose mind, so it is as seried, is a trifle untringed, had enough sense, about him this morning when he tried to work
the matter to remain, in the control of the street. His Worship fined the defendant the Viceroy. Now that he is gone, and $5.50 in all, which included compensation both there is a pro foreign Viceroy in his place, to the policeman and to the owner of the jar. they fear, and with reason, that their plans will be overturned and crushed. Viceroy Chow Fu is not likely to encourage the boycott in any shape or form. Whether he is strong enough to stamp it out reminins to America may say that the of the United States against Chinese, was original boycott inflicted little or no injury first connived, the main centre was al
on her trade with China, but nobody, statis Shanghai, but it quickly spread and the tics nevertheless, will believe that for a combative nature of the Cantonese was moment. And the worst of it is that, if the Police Court on a charge of absenting
America suffers, other countries may unwit. [ himself from the House of Detention. readily aroused in support of the movement. Latterly, however, mainly owing to the tingly be made victims also. All depends diplomatic statements of President Roosevelt, on Viceroy Chow Fu, and we feel that those and possibly due to the fact that the majority who support the boycotters have few grounds of those living in Canton have been so busily to assume that the movement is ever likely engaged in considering financial ventures of to attain the proportions it did when the one sort or another that, they have had no imagination of the people was first fired by time to indulge in airy ideas, there had the idea of retaliation, of
been a relapse into the old condition of
affairs and most people were quite convinced
that the boycott had evaporated. It was
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
only the other day that a writer in the IT is stated that, owing to the new Opium Re Shanghai, press stated that the word gulations recently enforced in Tientsin, over "boycott" was never heard nowadays and 400 opium deos have had to close.
that the movement had died a natural death.
There had been a flash and a splutter, and, THE Hop. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial ́and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledged then utter extinction. But a change has with thanks the following donations to the come over the spirit of our dreams, for funds of the Hospitals:- the boycott leaders of the Cantonese
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a bluff on Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, which would not hold water. ile was arraigned at
"Your Worship, this is the first time I have been up here!" said Downie, when asked to give as near as he possibly could the number of convictions he possessed.
Inspectar Smith, who is well acquainted with the defendant, denied that such was the case. Downie, saut he, has been known to the police for about five years. To give the Court an idea as to the number of his previous con- victions without tuming to the records would be impassible. He knew, however, that defen dant had been already convicted-many times, for failing to return to the House of Deten-
tion.
On this last trip, says the police, Downie has been away from the House for three days. The delinquent, who is scarcely over thirty years of age, is a seamen, and is known to be that tired feeling" so commonly known in an abstainer, but apparently he has contracted the East. no has been offered some very good jabs but has always found some way to which to remain on these shores. About a month ago ho was offered a post on board a homeward. bound ship. Downie promised he would be at hand on the day the ship was scheduled to de part. The ship, however, left without him, and when a search was made for the much sought after individual he was found hidden behind same boulderi on the hillside,
He was sentenced to one manib's hard labour,
'for want of sufficient evidence,
This morning, the trickster, who said he was Wong Kam, a cook, was charged, at the in- Hazeland, with larceny of the valuable bundle: stance of Inspector Smith, betoro Mr. F. A,
The charge was proved and the ingenious Great importance should be attached to the cook was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour words used by the murderer in hunting him and five hours' stacks, and to be deported at down, and if Mrs. Craik could give any further the expiration of his term of imprisonment. there ught to he men in Hongkong who could particulars about the voice and pronunciation
THE KING'S SPEECH. belongs to a'small number in comparison with the big Chinese population of that Colony,
narrow down the class to whom the murderer
In conclusion, I may suggest that it is pos sible the murder was committed by or at the instance of a 'dock employes, whose profis had been curtailed by the appointment of Mr. Craik, Yours faithfully,
X. Y.'.
[Our correspondent's theory is interesting. We may say, without any imputation, however, tha: Europeans of other than British nationality are employed at the Docks-Ed.,.S.T"]
HOCKEY.
CLUB 2, H.M.S. “KENT."
The following will represent the Club, playing in colours, to-morrow afternoon, on the Club ground, at 4.45 p.m.:-Coal, Lt, Florde, R.N.; Backs, L. Murphy (capt), and J. P. McGillivray; Halves, 7. C. Gray, A. B. Ogle, R., and C. P. Chater; Forwards, P..P. J. Wodehouse, H. C. C. Bailey, R. F. C. Master, L. G. Bird and C. J. Satterthwaite, ILE.
H.E. CHOW BU,
'ON CUOLIE EMIGRATION.
[From a Correspondent]
Canton, 3rd January, His Excellency Chow Fu has issued instruc
FOREIGN KELATIONS.
London, 12nd December The King's speech proroguing Parliament notes that foreign relations continue to be friendly.
a Coroner, and a jury, held an inquiry aching the death of the butcher, Medical, As well as other evidence, was heard, and the verdict returned was one of "death by hanging,"
ANTI-CONVERT FEELING
IN SOUTH CHINA..
FRENCH CONSUL ASKS PROTECTION. [From a Correspondent.]
Canton of the ill-treatment of Roman Catholic
Canton, 2nd January, Strange reports have lately been brought to
converts at Yeung Kong, by the populace who, it is stated, are not content with robbing them and destroying their ancestral tombs, but go to the extreme of kidnapping them and car- ying them away-no doubt with a view to ransom-and even murdering them. The re- poris go on to say that the officials view these outrages in the most apathetic manner. It is understood that these reports are entirely true, and therefore the French Coul has requested H.E. Viceroy Chow Fu to instruct the. Yeung Kong officials to be more alert and to afford The forthcoming visit of friendship by the greater protection to the unfortunate persecut- Amir of Afghanistan to the Viceroy is a grated native Roman Catholic converts. lying indication of the amicable relations exist. ing between the Amir and My Government." Ilis Majesty alludes to the marriage of his niece with King Alfonso of Spain and their merciful preservation from outrage.
The visit of King Haakon and Queen Mand carnot fail to promote friendly relations be tween Norway and Great Britain.
There has been a distinct improvement in dom, and they must be protected from all out. the condition of Creie.
Upon receiving this request from the French Consul, H.E. Chow Fu immediately sent a des- patch to the Yeung Kong Magistrate loform- 10g him of the reports which had reached his ears, together with complaints which might lead to considerable correspondence between himself and the Freuch authorities. H.E. Chow Fu said that the Chiness converts were the best-reputed subjects of the Middle King- rage and insult. H.E. then notified the ma gistrate and all the other officials of Young ng after the lives and property of the native Kong that they must be more vigilant in look converts, and see that they were in no way. The message meations the conclusion of the dishonoured or unjustly treated in the future. Abyssinian and New Hebrides agreements.E, also ordered that special guards be placed
the satisfactory arrangements with Ger.
in charge of the missionaries' houses to protect many and France respectively to delimit the Finally, HE instructed the magistrate and them in every way as well as their property, frontiers of the Tchad region, and the satis officials to use every endeavour to bring the offenders in the above reported cases of outrage factory seļiement of the Congo, Sudanese and
to justice without delay, stating that they must eastern Egypt boundaries,
be found and dealt with within the next few days.
The l'owers are giving close attention 10 re- forms to be gradually introduced into Mace dasia.
PRIMARY EDUCATION,
His Majesty segrets that notwithstanding the protracted consideration" given to the im provement of primary education do settlement of the difficulty, has been arrived at.
THE TRANSVAAL ·
tions to all his officials to keep a special look, form of Government will come into full opera
He trusis that during the coming year & now: out for the so-called "agents" who are going tion in the Transvaal and Orangia and that it about endeavouring to induce coolies to will exert a powerful influence in securing emigrate and labour on the Papama Canal peace and prosperity for both colonies. "Unity works, as the American Government has not is the strength of my possessions in South sanctioned, the emigration of there Chinose labourers, nor authorized these so-called agents to engage them. H.E, his ordered the arrest of these men whom he intends to punish, as be considers then no better than mere slave dealers,
Africa.
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